Median wait (P50)—
Home Affairs has not published a current processing time for this stream.
No published time· SUBCLASS 888 · STREAM 14
Business Innovation and Investment (Permanent) visa (subclass 888) — Significant Investor
Permanent residence pathway for 188 Significant Investor stream holders meeting the residency and investment tests. Significant Investor stream.
Processing-time distributionof grants in trailing 3 months
25%
P25
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50%
P50
—
75%
P75
—
90%
P90
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Category
Permanent residence
Stream
Significant Investor
Subclass code
888
How to read these numbers
Home Affairs publishes the actual processing-time distribution for each visa subclass. The 25th percentile shows how fast the quickest quarter of recent grants were finalised; the 90th shows the long tail. The median (50th) is the most useful single number — half of applications take less, half take more. Plan around the 75th or 90th if your travel or work plans cannot tolerate a delay.
Source · immi.homeaffairs.gov.auRefreshed daily